Display card mounting



May 22, 1934.

W. E. MIDDLETON DISPLAY GARD 'MOUNTING Filed Oct. 8. 1932 3 William E Mzddlefon Sum/ww Patented Niv-ay 22, 191.54

PATENT FFICE Application October 8, 1932, Serial No. 636,848

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to display card mountings adapted to support articles which are secured to the structures in connection with which they are to be used by means of screws,

5 or like fastening devices. More particularly, the present invention is concerned with providing an improved display card mounting for light hardware, such as ornamental hinges, pull handles for doors, or the like.

An object of the present invention is to provide an improved device of this kind in which the article desired to be displayed and its screws or like fastening means may be securely fixed to the display card. In this way, it is evident that the card and the article and its fastening means may be delivered to the purchaser as a unit so that the danger of losing the fastening means is greatly reduced.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved mounting of this kind in which the articles desired to be displayed may be quickly and expeditiously secured to the card mount and at the same time will be securely held in place upon the card after being mounted thereon.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an improved card mounting ci this kind in which parts of the articles displayed are utilized for securing said articles to the card mounting.

A further object of the present invention is to provide an improved device of this character in which the displayed articles may be mounted in spread out position to present the same to "5 the purchasing public in a pleasing and advantageous manner.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide an improved device of this kind which is simple in construction, comprises few parts, and is cheap to manufacture.

Other objects will be in part obvious, and in part pointed out more in detail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exempliiied in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing wherein is shown, for illustrative purposes, one embodiment which the present invention may take,

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of my improved device showing the articles to be displayed in 55 position;

(Cl. 20G-78) Fig. 2 is a view taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of another embodiment of my improved device; and

Fig. 4 is a view taken substantially on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, in the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, A generally designates a display card, and B generally designates the articles mounted thereon. The display card is preferably made up of two sheets of relatively stiff fibrous material. While two sheets of material are shown in this embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that a greater number may be employed.

The front sheet 10 is made from some suitable brous material, such as cardboard or the like, and has substantial thickness and stiffness. While shown as being oblong in shape, the sheet 10 may be formed to any suitable or desirable 75 configuration, and the front face thereof may have affixed thereto a relatively thin layer 10 of glazed paper, or the like, which may be ornamented, provided with desired advertising matter, or other information. The rear sheet 11 is similar to the front sheet 10 only the sheet 11 is not usually provided with embellishments of any kind. These sheets 10 and 11 are preferably placed with their opposed surfaces contacting one another, 8.5

The articles B which it is desired to display are then mounted upon the sheets l0 and 11. In Figs. l and 2, these articles are shown to be in the form of hinges lhaving leaves l2 and 13 provided with the usual openings in which are i inserted the customary fastening means, such as, the screws 14. The leaves l2 and 13 are then positioned as desired upon the front sheet l() of the card and with the points of the screws 14 contacting the front surface of the sheet 10. The screws 14 are then driven home through the sheets 10', 10, and ll.

It will be noted from Fig. 2 that as each screw 14 passes through the front sheet 10 it will punch out a boss therefrom and that this punched out boss, designated by the numeral l5, is carried rearwardly of the rear surface of the front sheet 10 and that the boss 15 is somewhat coneshaped. The apex of this cone-shaped boss 15 is provided with an opening the wall of which is jagged or irregularly shaped, as indicated at 15. Each screw 14 also passes through the rear sheet 1l and carries intothe opening made in the rear sheet a part of the cone-shaped boss l5 of the front sheet 10 to set up an interlock lio between the sheets 10 and 11. The passing of each screw 14 through the rear sheet 11 will also provide a punched out boss 16 extending from the rear face of the rear sheet 1l. Each boss 16 is somewhat cone-shaped and has an opening in the apex thereof through and beyond which the threaded end of the screw extends. The wall surrounding the opening in the apex of each boss 16 is also jagged, as shown at 16. It will be noted that the inner walls of the coneshaped bosses 15 and 16 closely encircle and snugly engage the respective adjacent threaded portions of the respective screws 14, whereby the withdrawal of the screws 14 is resisted.

In the use of the device, it will be seen that the hinges or other articles B may be quickly and easily mounted upon the sheets 10 and 1i simply by driving the screws 14 through the sheets 10 and 11. It will also be observed that no extraneous securing means are necessary to fasten the hinges in place on the card but that the screws by means of which the hinges are to be secured to the structures on which they are to be used are also employed for mounting the hinges on the card.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 3 and 4, A' generally designates the display card, B generally designates the article to be mounted thereon, and C designates the screws also mounted upon the card A. In this embodiment, the card A' preferably comprises a single sheet 20 of fibrous material having a layer or sheet 21 of glazed paper or the like aixed to its front face. In this embodiment, the article B is in the form of a pull handle for a door and is provided with two attaching plates 22 disposed at opposite ends of, and xed to, the grip portion 23 of the pull handle. Each attaching plate is provided with a pair of openings adapted to receive screws or the like by means of which the pull handle B may be secured to the door, or the like, upon which it is to be used. In order to mount the pull handle B upon the display card A', the former is placed upon the front face of the sheet 21 with the plates 22 engaging therewith. A clip 24 of spring metal or the like and of substantially U-shape has its respective legs threaded into the openings of one of the plates 212, and these legs of the clip are then passed through suitable openings on the sheet 20 and layer 21. The free ends of the legs may then be bent over upon the rear face of the sheet 20 to clinch the clip and pull handle B in place on the card. A clip 24 is provided for each plate 22.

The card A is extended beyond one of the attaching plates 22, as indicated at 25, and this extended portion 25 of the card is provided with an inverted U-shaped ridge or hump 26. This hump is formed by iirst pushing a portion of the card upwardly out of the plane of the card and then creasing the pushed up portion along its medial line and transversely of the card, as at a. The pushed up portion is thus brought to U-shape, and the legs 27 and 28 of the U are brought into parallelism and the inner faces of the legs are brought into contact with one another. The card is now creased along the lines of juncture b between the respective legs of the hump and the main portion of the extension 25 so that the legs of the hump 26 will be disposed above and at substantially right angles to the plane of the card.

The screws C are adapted to be driven through the legs of the hump 26 and at substantially right angles thereto. It will be noted from the construction of the hump 26 that there is provided a double ply of the sheet 20 through which the screws pass. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the screws C' are rst driven through the leg 27 and then through the leg 28 of the hump 26. As each screw C passes through the leg 27, it will punch out a cone-shaped boss 29 therefrom the free edge of which is jagged and, as the screw C passes through the leg 28, a portion of the boss 29 will be carried into the opening made by the screw in the leg 28 to set up an interlock between the legs. rThe passing of each screw through the leg 28 will also provide a punched out cone-shaped boss 30 extending from the outer face of the leg 28 and having its free end jagged. As in the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the inner walls of the cone-shaped bosses 29 and 30 closely encircle and snugly engage the respective adjacent screw threaded portions of the respective screws C whereby the withdrawal of the screws is resisted.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination, a display card comprising a sheet of nbrous material, said sheet having an upstanding transversely extending hump consisting of two plies of said sheet and being U- shaped, the legs of said U-shaped humphaving their inner faces contacting, and screws driven through each leg of said hump to provide punched out bosses on said legs, the inner walls of said bosses closely encircling and gripping the sides of said screws to resist withdrawal of said screws said sheet being of substantial thickness whereby the inner walls of said bosses are of substantial length and the walls of the bosses are of substantial thickness.

2. In combination, a display card of fibrous material and having a portion at least thereof of double ply, and screws driven through the double ply portion of said card to provide punched-out bosses on each of said plies, the punched-out bosses of the first ply entering the corresponding openings of the second ply, the inner walls of said bosses closely encircling and gripping said fastening means, said plies of said card being of substantial thickness whereby the openings formed in said plies by said screws are of substantial length and withdrawal of the screws is resisted.

WILLIAM E. MIDDLETON. 

